macaroni

Pasta in any of various hollow shapes, especially short curved tubes.

A well-traveled young Englishman of the 1700s and 1800s who affected foreign customs and manners.

A fop.

A vulgar name in Jamaica for a Mexican quarter-dollar, or, afterward, for an English shilling.

A kind of paste or dough prepared, originally and chiefly in Italy, from the glutinous granular flour of hard varieties of wheat, pressed into long tubes or pipes through the perforated bottom of a vessel furnished with mandrels, and afterward dried in the sun or by low heat.

A medley; something extravagant or calculated to please an idle fancy.

A London exquisite of the eighteenth century; a fop; a dandy; a member of the Macaroni Club. See II., 1.

A crested penguin or rock-hopper: a sailors’ name. See penguin, and cut under Eudyptes.